Cremation is most likely the course Ill take, whenever I get around to that pesky will, which I dont need at this point. While looking at the other stats, I find it interesting that PA seems to ALWAYS be between 20 and 30. WHY ARENT WE UNIQUE?

Personally, I want to be cremated. I just don't like the idea of taking up space that I don't really need. Obviously I won't really care either way after I die, but I just like the thought that my loose ends are tied up enough that the only evidence I ever existed is other people's memories of me.

I'd prefer to be laid on a Tower of Silence myself, but I guess they don't take non-Parsees.

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I can understand why Hawaii is a pro-cremation state, but I am a bit surprised by the East Coast. The two funerals I've dealt with the past few weeks were both non-cremation. I haven't decided what I want for myself yet. While it would be nice to have a headstone with my name and whatnot erected for all to see, do I really need to take up two more yards of space for eternity?

I remember in the 1980s when the mortuaries in California were experiencing a marked drop in business due to the sucess of "the Neptune Society" which specialized in cremation with the ashes spread in the ocean.

They derisevely referred to the low cost approach of the Neptune Society as "shake and bake."

The fact that the Bible belt is low doesn't surprise me at all. I've just always wondered how they justify people dying in September 11th, and why they don't carry their thought out to a point where they'd mumify the dead.

The fact that the Bible belt is low doesn't surprise me at all. I've just always wondered how they justify people dying in September 11th, and why they don't carry their thought out to a point where they'd mumify the dead.

I'd like to be given a natural burial, if possible--blue-and-white shroud, flowers, maybe a Bible and a few other books that are important to me, in a pine or cypress box. I also want to be buried on consecrated ground. And not indoors or under a very thick-leaved tree; I want rain to be able to fall on my grave.